Wife of New York Senate Hopeful Marc Cenedella Is No Stranger to Blogging Controversy Herself

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand roundly admonished TheLadders CEO Marc Cenedella yesterday following a New York Times story about content pertaining to women, sex, and drugs on his personal blog—or at least a blog that featured a giant photo of him and the tagline “The personal blog of Marc Cenedella.” As politics wonks will note, Mr. Cenedella, an anti-tax activist, is a likely Republican challenger to Ms. Gillibrand’s seat in the Senate.

A spokesman for TheLadders quickly responded that the posts in question, such as one that advocated for a holiday where women offer free oral sex along with a steak dinner, were not actually written by Mr. Cenedella, calling it a, “staging site contained testing content from a wide variety of sources, including spam from automatic spiders.”

Nonetheless, it wasn’t the first time that the Cenedella family has been in the news for its personal blogs. A source informed Betabeat that Mr. Cenendella’s wife Angela Cenedella, née Angela Kim, is the author of the popular lifestyle blog Vie Society, known for its unapologetically girly take on the luxe life and coining terms like “moopig” and “amazeballoons.“